February 6: Guest Speaker Cameron Davidson

cameron-davidsonAs this issue of the Cable Release is being prepared, our speaker, Cameron Davidson, is on assignment in Brazil. He suggested that the bio on his web site (www.camerondavidson.com) would be the best way to introduce him to SSCC, so we have reproduced it in this column. Cameron will speak principally about his adventurous life as an aerial photographer. Meanwhile, you may want to examine one of his books: Chesapeake, available through Amazon and featured on his own site. He describes it as a “two-decade labor-of-love shooting aerial photographs of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed from the headwaters in Cooperstown, New York to the mouth of the Chesapeake at Virginia Beach.”

THE BIO
First Light: Miami
Ancestry: Father (Scottish); Mother (French, Alsace-Lorraine)
First photograph published 1973: Jim Lasowski clearing the hurdles at a Grass Lake High School track meet for the Grass Lake News.
Education: Corcoran School of Art + Nova
Best view in the world is from the rear cabin of a turbine helicopter.
October 2012: United States Postal Services issues an all aerial series of stamps titled, Earthscapes. My aerial of Blackwater Refuge is one of 15.
Seventeen NGO shoots in Haiti since 1999.
Ten day circumnavigation of the world for Heinz.
All aerials.
So far: 49 states, 6 Canadian provinces, 2
Mexican states plus 23 other countries.
Hawaii is still on my hit list.
Six books published.
First Camera purchased with money earned while working at a campground in the Florida Keys. It was a Kowaflex SE. I should have gone for the Rollei TLR.
Love working with a team dedicated to a vision.